What the Dead Know110 reviews Laura Lippman Harper, 2008 WOW! + Pleasurable reading + What the Dead Know + first half=4 stars, second half=2 stars.             A Sight For Sore Eyes56 reviews Ruth Rendell Hutchinson, 1998 Chilling psychological suspense examines beauty + The Boston Globe was right - it is high-quality Rendell + Five stars for a great story I couldn't put down, as usual... + The most DISTURBING novel I've read in a long, long time--that ending!             The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox54 reviews Maggie O'Farrell Harcourt, 2007 Brilliantly written in a style that puts you inside Esme's character. + Quick Read from Heavy Subject Matter + Wonderfully written + Great book!!             The Meaning of Night: A Confession75 reviews Michael Cox W. W. Norton, 2007 A Modern Dickensian Tale + A Review - The Meaning of Night by Stephens James + great read + The Dark Night of Obsession             The Lying Tongue18 reviews Andrew Wilson Washington Square Press, 2008 A brilliant masterpiece.... + Don't read Blurbs + Mad, Dark, Twisted Mystery + Moral Highsmith             A Place of Execution118 reviews Val McDermid St. Martin's Paperbacks, 2001 A shrewd author -- excellent contemporary British mystery + The whole story ... + A Stunning Masterpiece + A shrewd story and a solid British mystery + It Lives Up to Its Hype             A Fatal Inversion12 reviews Barbara Vine Penguin Books Ltd, 2004 Dance To The Music Of Time + Tensions build and build as you read this book. + Excellent! + A mystery that keeps you guessing             Ripley's Game32 reviews Patricia Highsmith W. W. Norton, 2008 A Great Read + Classic stuff + A Thrifty Writer Who Could Do a Lot with a Little Ripley's Game is the third novel in the series by Patricia Highsmith, taking off where Ripley Under Ground left us since we learn the he got off scot-free once again. Ripley's thin skin shows in this novel when he is coldly received at a party given by Jonathan Trevanny that he takes as an insult. ...             Strange but True: A Novel (P.S.)40 reviews John Searles Harper Perennial, 2005 Much more than just a mystery + Need to know + Read it in a day + Best Book Club Book I Have Ever Read!             The Sixth Lamentation34 reviews William Brodrick Penguin (Non-Classics), 2004 "Once you've heard a child cry out to heaven for help, and go unanswered, nothing's ever the same again. Even God changes." + get ready to be glued to this book + A Heart Wrenching Tale that Draws the Reader in to Its Moral Dilemmas + WONDERFUL READ             Case Histories143 reviews Kate Atkinson Black Swan, 2008 A read-again book + More of Jackson, please... I am a huge reader. When I was a child I would close a good book and immediately start it again. I haven't done this for 30 years until this book. The first time through, I read it for the pure joy of good storytelling. I went straight back to the beginning to see how she did it! It is that good.             The Sculptress: A Novel2 reviews Minette Walters Picador, 2007 TRUE BEAUTY COMES WRAPPED IN DIFFERENT PACKAGES... This is an intriguing, well written mystery which garnered the 1994 Edgar Award for best novel of the year for British writer, Minette Walters, who has written quite a number of excellent books. She is a writer in the tradition of that other great British novelist, Ruth Rendell, known also as ...             A Deadly Dozen10 reviews Phil Mann, Kris Neri, ... Uglytown Productions, 2000 A terrific collection of writers who pull no punches! + A DEADLY DOZEN + The Captivating Dozen + Excellent anthology + Avid Mystery Reader from LA             Half Broken Things16 reviews Morag Joss Delta, 2006 The world will not just go away + Excellent + Half Broken Things + Layer after disturbing layer             What Was She Thinking?: Notes on a Scandal: A Novel90 reviews Zoe Heller Picador, 2003 An old maid sweetens her tea with scandal + A + Brilliantly Written + The Best, So Far... + Not as good as these four stars would suggest             The Thirteenth Tale: A Novel569 reviews Diane Setterfield Washington Square Press, 2007 Brilliant + Great read, involves and entertains, great for a book club + Great Gothic Tale! + An Excellent Read + A True Gothic Novel             A Moment on the Edge: 100 Years of Crime Stories by Women5 reviews Elizabeth George Harper Paperbacks, 2005 This Excellent Collection is an Absolute Delight + Great + Fantastic book + An Awesome Collection + terrific deference to the ladies of crime             Death at La Fenice: A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery51 reviews Donna Leon Harper Paperbacks, 2004 Death at LaFenice + Nice Little Crime Story + Operatic complexities + I enjoyed it so much, I have ordered the second in the series.             The Meaning of Night: A Confession75 reviews Michael Cox W. W. Norton, 2007 A Modern Dickensian Tale + A Review - The Meaning of Night by Stephens James + great read + The Dark Night of Obsession             The Lying Tongue18 reviews Andrew Wilson Washington Square Press, 2008 A brilliant masterpiece.... + Don't read Blurbs + Mad, Dark, Twisted Mystery + Moral Highsmith